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...Justices who originally opposed Roe vs. Wade, Byron White and William Rehnquist, were joined last week by Sandra Day O'Connor, who authored the strongly worded dissent (see box). O'Connor argued that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists in all stages of the pregnancy. She wrote: "In Roe, the court held that although the state had an important and legitimate interest in protecting potential life, that interest could not become compelling until the point at which the fetus was viable. The difficulty with this analysis is clear: potential life is no less...
Since then, however, the government in Pretoria has significantly tightened the enforcement of apartheid laws and repressed any signs of dissent. In 1966, the IDAF was banned and has been forced to smuggle aid into the country through what Gomes calls "cloak and dagger means...
...addition, by giving financial aid to the families of political prisoners, the organization helps remove a deterrent to dissent. "There is no welfare for the relatives of criminals in South Africa," Gomes explains. "So families are punished along with the prisoner which is the ultimate form of intimidation. We negate to some extent that intimidation through financial assistance...
...effect of these actions is to permit civil disobedience within the apartheid state, says the Black South African studying in this area. "The burden of dissent would be impossible to bear alone," he adds...
...Bismarck to embark on the Franco-Prussian War, which he decisively won. Governmental forgery goes on, in many guises and places. The practices of the Soviet Union's KGB have made the term disinformation familiar to millions. During the late 1960s, the FBI'S attempts to sow dissent among radical and antiwar groups in the U.S. involved some flat-out fakery...